John F. Kennedy Quotes
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
Kennedy, John F. "Message for National Library Week, April 1961." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, United States Government Printing Office, 1962, p. 280.
This decision did not extend the right of privacy of patrons of public libraries as to what material they access.
The Senator was referring to the difficulty that governments have in censoring and controlling information on the Internet.
She was supporting the Kansas City Public Library which was protesting the arrest of a patron who had attended a speech sponsored by a non profit community organziation. The organization hard hired a security guard who happened to be a mmoonlighting Kansas City police officer. The patron had brabbed the microphone to protest and refute the speaker, The guard proceeded to arrest the paton. When a library employee tried to intervene explaining that it was the policy of the library to allow great exhuberence on th part of all attendees at public discussions. The officer then arrested the library employee. The library protested to the Police and the mayor vigoriously and the incident becale a national cause celebre. This was the statemment of the American Library Association President.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
